Fermions are ubiquitous in nature and their quantum behavior is responsible for the periodic table and the stability of matter. However low density, weakly interacting Fermi systems are exceedingly rare. Building on the technologies that were used to produce the first dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates in 1995, we have cooled a million potassium-40 atoms to temperatures below a microKelvin and observed effects of the Fermi-Dirac quantum statistics. The atoms are first laser cooled and trapped out of a room temperature vapor. Following this initial cooling, the atoms are magnetically confined and further cooled via forced evaporation. I will discuss the consequences of the fermionic nature of the atoms on the evaporative cooling process and present measurements of the quantum statistics at our lowest temperatures.